§ 331. Laws and decrees of foreign countries appointing agents and
attorneys and recording of the same. A copy of a law of a foreign
country or of a decree of the executive power of such a country,
appointing an agent or attorney with power to execute and deliver in the
name or on behalf of such foreign country, any instrument in writing
granting, assigning, surrendering or in any manner affecting any estate
or interest of such government in real property within this state, or
assigning or discharging any lien or claim of such government upon real
property within this state, or of a law or decree revoking such an
appointment, if in English, or a translation into English of any such
law or decree, if the original thereof be in a language other than
English, when certified and recorded as hereinafter provided, shall be
presumptive evidence of the authority of such agent or attorney.
Certification of such copy or translation shall be made under the great
seal of such foreign country and shall be to the effect that the same is
a true copy or translation of such law or decree. Such copy or
translation of such law or decree, when so certified, may be recorded in
the office of the clerk or register of any county of this state, and
such copy or translation when so certified and recorded, or a certified
copy of the record thereof, shall be received as evidence in any court
of this state. The authority conferred under any instrument so recorded
shall not be deemed revoked as to property situated in any county except
by the recording in such county of a copy or translation of a law or
decree to that effect, duly certified in the manner hereinbefore
provided. Nothing in this section shall in any way affect the right or
power of a foreign country to acquire, hold or convey real property in
this state, or be construed to confer any such right or power.